Entourage forcing new account, losing all email

[mdm]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Email Client: pop

Entourage doesn't remember my account! Everytime I run Entourage after the machine has been turned off I have to setup my email account again. I am losing all prior email. Help!

TIA MDM

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Email Client:
pop

Entourage doesn't remember my account! Everytime I run Entourage after
the machine has been turned off I have to setup my email account again.
I am losing all prior email. Help!

Entourage looks for e-mails in ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data. If you
move this folder, it can't find the previous account and offers to
re-create one.
Could that be the case for you here?

Corentin

 

[Diane Ross]

Entourage doesn't remember my account! Everytime I run Entourage after the
machine has been turned off I have to setup my email account again. I am
losing all prior email. Help!

When you turn off your computer do you use the "shut down" feature or just
power off?

See the directions here for setting up accounts:

Account Setup

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/accounts/index.html>